Any politician whose vote is responsible for getting U.S. troops involved in a conflict and is found to be lying about the reason for sending said troops into conflict should be held responsible for the deaths of any service members involved in that conflict. Additionally, before any conflict can be voted on there must be a clear outline of that conflict’s purpose and end goal.
It’s quite ridiculous that we’ve had two nearly 20-year conflicts, Vietnam and Iraq, within living memory that were predicated on lies, and the politicians involved in starting those conflicts faced zero repercussions for it even though it’s been proven that they knew they were lying to the American public.